News!! Dynamic Views Inwards Blogger: What Are They? What Should Yous Produce Most Them?

This article is an overview of Blogger's "dynamic views", including advice close their immediate implications for our blogs.

Blogger together with Dynamic Views

In belatedly Apr 2011, Blogger announced a novel characteristic called Dynamic Views. There was a post close it inwards Blogger Buzz, Google's weblog close Blogger.

As well, when people log into Blogger for the starting fourth dimension time since the launch, they come across an "over-the-top" window on the dashboard, placed therefore it has to live on reacted to (either Dismiss or Learn more) earlier using most of the dashboard links.

If yous direct maintain multiple Google accounts, yous volition live on shown the pop-up the side past times side fourth dimension yous log into each i of them.

For a while, the Learn More link wasn't working:  it's been fixed now, but simply inwards case, yous tin discovery the article for weblog owners together with authors here (at fourth dimension of writing, anyway).  It links to another article for blog-readers, which explains how they tin thought blogs using dynamic views, without going into technical details.

What are Dynamic Views

Basically, dynamic views are a totally dissimilar type of blog-template, that display posts from your blog's Feed (ie non the weblog itself) inwards or therefore novel ways.  The designs facial expression good - though most rely on your weblog having an first-class painting demo for each post, together with yous can't (yet) command which painting demo is used.

Rather than trying to depict them, it's in all likelihood easiest if yous convey a facial expression for yourself - these links convey yous to this weblog (ie Blogger-HAT) inwards each  of the templates:

• Flipcard  
• Mosaic  
• Sidebar  
• Snapshot
• Timeslide

What are the consequences of this change

In the brusk term, no i (except maybe Google) is certain of the implications of dynamic templates.   You can't brand them the default agency to thought your weblog silent although for at that spot is a unproblematic agency to give your readers the option to switch to a dynamic view.

But this comment, from the halt of the Blogger Buzz announcement, is in all likelihood significant:

We’re previewing these templates early on therefore nosotros tin contain your feedback for a wider launch soon. At that fourth dimension you’ll live on able to customize these templates together with pick out i for your blog. Please let us know what yous think!

What we're seeing right directly isn't the finished product.   (Which is simply equally well, because I direct maintain a lot of issues amongst the templates equally they stand.  For starters: no statistics, no gadgets, search is express to what's inwards your blog's feed, no comments, focus on pictures but no command over the psyche prototype for each post).  I hold off these to live on fixed - although I'm concerned close why they're limiting the thought of weblog to what's inwards the feed, unless it's utilization of the long-term plans.

For now, though, all yous tin produce is either accept that or therefore viewers volition facial expression at your weblog using dynamic views together with that this may hateful yous statistics aren't right - or switch the dynamic templates off for your blog.

Turning off dynamic views for your blog

To start with, dynamic views are enabled for all blogs.   But yous tin plough them off:

• Go to Settings > Formatting
• 2/3 of the agency downwards the page, at that spot is an option for Enable Dynamic Views
• Set it to Yes or No, depending on what yous desire to do.
• Press Save at the bottom left corner of the page (you postulate to scroll downwards to it). 

If yous produce this, together with then whatever visitor who trys to thought your weblog using a dynamic thought is shown a message (complete amongst Blogger logo) saying:

Sorry, dynamic views aren't available for this blog.
You'll live on redirected to the weblog homepage [link to the domicile page] momentarily. Learn more

To turning off, or not?

Initially, I wasn't going to bother turning dynamic views off for my blogs, fifty-fifty ones where dynamic views don't brand feel eg because the weblog looks to a greater extent than similar a regular website.

But a afterwards announcement of the Chrome extension for Blogger says that:

will automatically discovery [your reader is] viewing a Blogger blog, together with and then display a Blogger icon (the orangish ‘B’!) inwards [their] address bar which lets [them] pick out together with thought the weblog inwards i of the 5 novel dynamic views.below.

In other words, this volition tell people [who utilization it] that they are looking at a site made amongst Blogger, fifty-fifty if yous direct maintain gone to a lot of problem to shroud the fact.

Given that, I volition live on busy for the side past times side fifteen minutes, changing the setting to "off" for all except 2 of my blogs.   

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